Current Employment Position(s)

; Financial Institutions and Real Estate

Lawyer Overview

Mike is an associate in the firm of Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association. He is based in our Minneapolis office and is a member of the Financial Institutions and Real Estate Section. He practices principally in the areas of:

• Asset-based lending
• Defaulted loans and workouts
• Bankruptcy
• Traditional commercial lending
• Syndicated credit facilities
• Creditors’ rights and remedies
• Commercial real estate lending
• Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) law
• Banking law and regulation

Mike protects the interests of banks and other lenders in structuring, negotiating and documenting traditional and asset-based loan transactions, syndicated credit facilities, franchise finance transactions, and construction and permanent real estate loan transactions. Mike also represents banks and other lenders in workouts, restructurings and other transactions intended to address issues with defaulting borrowers. He has substantial experience in all of these areas representing national banks, large regional institutions and smaller niche lenders. In addition to representing lenders in commercial finance transactions and workouts, Mike also works extensively with creditors in connection with Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings by customers and/or tenants. His creditor clients typically include real estate developers, property managers, utility companies and manufacturers.

Among Mike’s representative transactions, he has acted as:

• Agent’s counsel in a $60 million secured syndicated revolving, term and real estate loan facility to a wire manufacturer;
• Bankruptcy counsel to a national real estate developer in connection with a tenant bankruptcy and lease rejection involving a 300,000-square-foot built-to-suit manufacturing facility;
• Counsel for a large regional lender in connection with a $115 million real estate workout involving over 30 properties in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas and Florida;
• Counsel to a national commodity trading company in connection with a multi-million dollar workout and restructuring with a defaulting customer;
• Counsel for a large regional lender in connection with a $15 million real estate workout involving a residential development company;
• Bankruptcy counsel to a large national boat manufacturer in connection with numerous bankruptcy cases in various jurisdictions involving failed boat dealerships;
• Lender’s counsel in a $10 million secured loan facility to an equipment finance company;
• Counsel for a large utility provider in connection with a $500,000 preference complaint in the bankruptcy of a national food distributor;
• Lender’s counsel to a large regional lender in connection with $30 million revolving and term loan facilities to a temporary staffing company; and
• Lender’s counsel in a $10 million secured revolving loan facility to a seafood distributor.

Mike is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court of the District of Minnesota and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. He is a member of the Minnesota State, Hennepin County and Wisconsin State Bar associations. Mike is also a member of Turnaround Management Association, American Bankruptcy Institute and a contributor to the quarterly Bankruptcy Bulletin published by the Bankruptcy Section of the Hennepin County Bar Association.

Mike received his B.A in political science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He received his law degree cum laude from University of Wisconsin Law School. Mike joined Briggs in 2002.

Areas of Practice

• Banking and Finance
• Commercial Lending
• Bankruptcy and Workout
• Asset-Based Lending
• Mortgage Banking

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Bankruptcy Law, Bankruptcy Litigation, Collections & Repossessions, Commercial Bankruptcy, Commercial Banks, Consumer Bankruptcy, Credit Unions, Creditors' Rights, Debt Discharge, Excise Taxes, Foreclosures, Lending & Secured Transactions, Loan Workouts, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Public Finance, Reorganizations & Restructuring, State & Municipal Bonds & Financing, Taxation Law, Transactions, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Workouts

Bar Admissions

• Minnesota, 2002
• Wisconsin, 2002

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Minnesota State Bar Association
• Member
• Turnaround Management Association
• Member
• Hennepin County Bar Association
• Member
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• Member
• Wisconsin State Bar Association
• Member

Education

• University of Wisconsin Law School, 2002
  J.D.
  Honors: Cum Laude
• University of Minnesota, 1998
  B.A.

Published Works

• Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, 2005

Address

2200 IDS Center
80 South 8th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402

Phones

612.977.8562 (Business Phone)

Faxes

612.977.8650 (Business Fax)

Emails

Contact Us (Business Email)

Websites

http://www.briggs.com/